EZDrummer & Reaper not working suddenly after ezx addition

[Robert.Goble]

EZDrummer has been working great – until about 1 month ago when suddenly and inexplicably it started taking forever to load, or not fully loading — and even when loaded fully, when projects were opened they played like they were in slow motion – with random noise and crazy sounds. I’m using Reaper, 64Bit, Win 7.

This behaviour correlated (roughly) with the download and installation of EZX JAzz

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I’ve reinstalled everything and the problem persists. I’ve checked the obvious (like sample rates etc) and its all fine — I upped the buffer to 500K – no better (maybe slightly)…

I’m fully prepared to wipe everything and reinstall again — is there an uninstaller/cleanup utility that can get everything? I’m currently stalled – EZdrummer is unusable. Any help would be appreciated.

R.

www.thestairwayproject.com

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[Olof Westman]

Sounds like you have something on your machine that eats up
CPU time.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder

[Robert.Goble]

As soon as I hit play – usage jumps from 7% to 100 — reaper to 92%.

EDIT TO ADD: so I’ve gone in a turned off all the live FX within the project (in reaper) and that freed up my CPU usage — what I can’t figure out is why the “sudden” change — and why the change on projects that I had already worked with and added nothing to. So I’m going to play around with rendering tracks in the workflow so there’s not so many “live” FX — but I still am not satisfied with the sudden nature of this change. More investigation (and thanks for the tip re – cpu usage) – that at least got me into a different troubleshooting mode.

www.thestairwayproject.com

[Robert.Goble]

Following up on this —- Has anyone experienced issues with Shockwave relating to EZdrummer & or Reaper? I’m assuming Shockwave is part of the animations — I was getting some shockwave failures as well that seemed to stall the loading of EZdrummer.

EDIT: I’m now convinced it was related to shockwave. I uninstalled shockwave and then made sure the 3 browsers I have were all updated — then I installed shockwave again for each browser and suddenly I could load my old project in reaper and the drums played and loaded fine. My only clue was at some point I had brief flash of a shockwave plugin stopping working — and I thought — wait — EZdrummer has an animation.

Can anyone confirm this or have any insight into this as an issue? — until I solved it EZdrummer was basically DOA. I have TONS of memory and CPU even with Live FX (like 20 Plus) across the tracks.

www.thestairwayproject.com

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